§ 262-88. Petition of adjustment of assessments or benefits.

Whenever the owners of 25 percent or more of the acreage of the lands in the district shall file a petition with the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the greater part of the lands of the district are located stating that there has been a material change in the values of the property in the district since the last previous assessment of benefits and praying for a readjustment of the assessment or benefits for the purpose of making a more equitable basis for the levy of the maintenance tax, the said circuit clerk shall give notice of the filing and hearing of said petition in the manner and for the time provided for in section 262-60. Such notice may be in the following form:

Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the lands included within the Jaudon Drainage and Improvement District that a petition has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of ___________ County, ___________, praying for a readjustment of the assessment of benefits for the purpose of making a more equitable basis for the levy of the maintenance tax in said district, and that said petition will be heard by said Circuit Court on the first day of the next ___________ term of said court.

Date of first publication _______, 19___.

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Clerk of the Circuit Court of ___________ County.

Upon the hearing of said petition if said court shall find that there has been a material change in the values of the lands in said district since the last previous assessment of benefits the court shall order that there be made a readjustment of the assessment of benefits for the purpose of providing a basis upon which to levy the maintenance tax of said district. Thereupon the court shall appoint three commissioners, possessing the qualifications of commissioners appointed under section 262-57 to make such readjustment of assessments in the manner provided in section 262-59, and said commissioners shall make their report, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon, as nearly as may be, as are herein provided for the assessment of benefits accruing for original construction; provided, that in making the readjustment of the assessment of benefits said commissioners shall not be limited to the aggregate amount of the original or any previous assessment of benefit, and that after the making of such readjustment the limitation of ten percent as the annual maintenance tax which may be levied shall apply to the amount of benefits as readjusted; and provided further, that there shall be no readjustment of benefits oftener than once in five years.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 9791 (1923), § 38)